climate change has implications for economic growth, human security and social wellbeing, especially for the poorest and most marginalised people. how countries cope with climate change will depend on wealth, poverty leads to poor health, malnutrition and an inability to cope with extreme weather events
there is a vicious cycle of problems generated by climate change:
higher temperatures (more hazardous world, great impact on water and food supplies)
lead to increased evaporation (more water vapour, more ice sheets melting, accelerating changes due to positive feedback)
leads to worsening greenhouse effect (major issue is rising sea levels, global warming impacts)
leads to more uncertainty (more extreme weather with more uncertainty - changes in precipitation patterns, growing incidence of floods and severe storms)
leads to more impacts (more food insecurity, conflicts over water insecurity, more vunerable people, environmental refugees)
(the cycle repeats itself)
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